The Character Chess Set from Emma Jefferson is a beautiful detailed board game made out of wood. The chess pieces have fun faces and personalities which, in contrary to regular chess sets, might make it easier for children to comprehend the game and the role of each piece.

It is available in a pink/purple girl’s version and a blue/white boy’s version, and both versions will work just as well as ornamental pieces in the kids room.

The game comes in a calico case with individual pockets for each piece and the board itself. The case provides excellent protection both during travelling and storage.

Besides the chess set Emma Jefferson offers a great selection of wooden toys and accessories for kids. The store offers mirrors, games, shelves, trinket drawers, money boxes, door stops, cupboard knobs and peg boards amongst other things, and everything is made with lots of adorning details and fresh colors.

The Dutch artist Selwyn Senatori is the brain behind Arttops – laptops with an artistic touch.

Arttops comes in two versions, blue King and pink Queen, both are decorated all over the top and has decoration around the keyboard and screen too.

The Arttops are limited edition. Only one hundred are available of each and all have been signed by the Selwyn himself. They look to be a great alternative to the usual plain business like black, grey and white minimalisticly designed laptops and might make a great confirmation gift for an art loving teen.

Both “King” and “Queen” comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.86GHz processor, 1024MB DDR2 memory and 120GB(King)/100GB(Queen) hard drives. The “King” has a 15.4-inch screen while the “Queen” has a smaller 14.1-inch screen.

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Aside from being pink, cute and a Hello Kitty product, which is enough reason for many people to buy this toaster, it could also be of help for parents who struggle to get their daughters to eat their meals.

A sandwich with a Hello Kitty face on it might make their food more interesting, and preparing the toast in a cute looking toaster probably doesn’t hurt either.

It is a two-slice toaster and it is available at
Target.

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Rehabilitated Dishware is the brainchild of Sarah Cihat and was a part of her thesis project at Parsons School of Design. By re-designing and re-surfacing used and unwanted dishes she gives them a new and much longer life.

The ceramic plates, which she finds at places like Goodwill, Salvation Army or the reject piles at retail stores, are transformed from their old look to modern, stylish and colorful plates that would make any dinner table look amazing, especially at parties. This way of renewing used and unwanted things is of course also a great way of helping reduce the strain on the environment.

Many of the plates have colors and illustrations which make them great gift ideas for children. Not only would the dishes be great to eat from but they would also work well as decoration in a child’s bedroom. After all, the dishes are valuable and collectible designer pieces.

Sarah Cihats Rehabilitated Dishware has been featured in magazines like Elle, O at Home, Food & Wine, Nylon and Metropolitan Home and you can read more about the dishes at Sarah Cihat.

ducduc offers stylish and durable blankets for kids, toddlers and babies. There are both merino wool and cotton knit blankets.

The 100% Italian merino wool double-side ducduc blankets comes in light blue and light pink. Both versions have a chocolate brown stripe in the middle, which on the blue blanket is adorned with a white B for boy and on the pink blanket its adorned with a white G for girl. Both blankets are orange with a cream colored stripe on the reverse side. The blankets are simple and beautiful and can follow the kid as it grows due to the design that allows for kids to use them even though they are not babies anymore. Continue reading ‘ducduc Blankets’

The Gucio shoe is a truly remarkable shoe for children. It was made out of love for children, and with the intent to make the perfect shoe for them. It probably is, in fact it is the first shoe that adapts to the child’s heel preventing discomfort in this problem aerea. Continue reading ‘Gucio Shoes’

Zolo Play Garden from Kushies is, like all the toys in the award winning Zolo range, a very engaging toy for babies.

The entire toy is made out of fabric and all the pieces are soft and comfortable for the baby to play with. Zolo Play Garden consists of a garden covered with green fabric grass and brown fabric dirt and eleven small soft shapes with magnets, which allows the baby to stack and build an imaginary garden. All the pieces and the garden itself are full of colors, shapes and patterns which stimulates the baby, and the building and stacking helps develop coordination and creative skills.

All the Zolo toys are very unusual looking and the shapes and figures are often more otherworldly than earth-like. This fact, the way the toys encourage engaging activities, the colors and all the patterns makes the Zolo toys lots of fun.

Zolo Play Garden is available at UncommonGoods.

Tummy Talk LLC has made a wonderful pregnancy album. Unlike most other pregnacy books, which are either made for journaling, photos or memorabillia, the Tummy Talk allows you to keep all those memories in one place. A finished pregnancy book filled with precious memories is a great keepsake for the whole family. Continue reading ‘Tummy Talk – A Practical Pregnacy Album’

Trousseliers wooden music boxes are not only fun toys but also very decorative and colorful, which makes them fine decorative pieces for the kid’s room or the nursery. They are made out of wood and painted in lively complementary and contrasting colors making them stimulating to look at for small kids. The simple and clean design is very modern but there is also a feeling of heirloom quality over the Trousselier musical boxes.

The boxes are magnetic and this causes the two figures on top of each box to dance to the rhythm of soft and relaxing music when it is winded up.

Some of Trousseliers wooden musical boxes are available at Decoccinelle.